Raising a glass to Cyprus: Why the winemakers don't do the bubbles

A wine fermenting jar from 3500BC proves that Cypriots were among the first in Europe to produce the good stuff; however they still don’t do the bubbles, discovers Shilpa Ganatra.

Listen closely and emanating throughout the stone building of the Cyprus Wine Museum is the gentle sound of classical music. If they turned the volume up, the hope is I’d recognise that the compositions are inspired by wine.